The Spirit demands sacrifices. No, not blood, though that works. And not gold, though that works too. In fact, anything works. Put something in the hole- a rock, a blade of grass, a body part- and it will disappear. In its place, something will happen- a noise, a gout of flame, a flash of light will fly out of the box.
The village lives around the box. They worship the box. Children play with the box, speaking to it and putting objects in it to watch the dancing lights. Shaman watch the correlation of what has been put into the box and what comes out to provide omens and wisdom to the rest of the village.
And The Spirit resides in The Box, and it changes objects into light, or fire, or noise, or shuddering, as it has been doing for the past thousand years or more. Maybe since the beginning of time. It doesn't remember. In fact, it doesn't remember much at all.
Then one day, a precocious child wanted to see what was in the box. She took it off its pedestal one night, and smashed it against the ground. The seals broke, and the girl disappeared and was never seen again. The village, without its guiding Spirit, dwindled into nothing.
The Spirit is overall a fickle, capricious being, much of her personality stemming from the child who was a part of her creation. However, she is certainly not human in outlook, and does not identify herself as such. Indeed, she went through a bit of a hateful, human-slaughtering streak, though that has since been tempered by Maurice's influence. Despite this, she remains the passionate, darkly whimsical, and in many ways almost animalistic creature she has always been.
Physical Condition
Lacking any sort of biology beyond the ephemeral, The Spirit doesn't have much of a physical condition, as it were. However, in her spiritual state she's absorbed Augustus, the previous carrier of many Archdemon "spirits". Now carrying them for herself, she may find this condition to be a help or, more likely, a hindrance; however, having decided to ignore these spirits and their secrets in favor of chasing her lost love, they remain a mystery.
Available Equipment
The Spirit has absorbed Maurice's angelic armor; as such, she is now quite capable of replicating it and the substance it was made from. She used to also carry Maurice's sword, but she returned that to her before the Battle of Narle.
Known Abilities
The Spirit has complete control over her form, limited only to what she's absorbed. She can absorb any sort of matter, either adding to her own mass or using it to create forms of energy (heat, kinetic, light, etc); in the latter function, she usually just cannibalizes her own mass to accomplish this. She can also extend herself into other objects she touches, adding them to herself but keeping their form.
Handicaps
The Spirit, though immensely powerful, is naturally constrained by the natural laws of the universe; conservation of mass and energy, as well as other pesky things such as gravity. Though perhaps innately magical, she cannot perform any sort of magic, and though capable of ignoring nearly all forms of physical harm, her "essence" is vulnerable to a crafty mage or enchanter.
At the start of the story, The Spirit was an innocent, curious creature; impressionable, above all, a blank slate. She followed families of earthworms, and helped a human man catch some fish. This did not last, however, as cloaked assailants quickly swooped in to attack with knives that could somehow harm her; with the help of the aforementioned human, she fought them off, with only the dying words "Athelion the Lifebringer" to understand where they might have come from, or why they attacked her.
She responded in kind: going to the nearest church of Athelion, she slaughtered the priest there, and asked the assembled mass where she might find Athelion that she would bring him down, see him grovel before her and beg for forgiveness of the crimes that had been committed against her. The response was, of course, unhelpful, but one particularly ambitious human offered to help her- not by giving her Athelion, but a way to lure him in, draw his attentions: to form an army of his former worshipers. The Spirit, having no other recourse, accepted this idea, and went to the next town to begin recruiting. During one of the sermons at the church, she again slaughtered the priest there, and offered the congregation those things mortals so desire- gold, jewels, fish. There, she was met with fear, greed… and defiance, from an angel disguised in the crowd. She told the angel, Maurice, to go back to Athelion and tell him about her. Maurice was about to do so, but then The Spirit, seeing her true form, decided it would be more valuable to just assimilate her. She attempted to do so, and Maurice fought back fiercely- instead of assimilating her, The Spirit decided to simply keep her prisoner, fascinated by the willful little creature.
(To Be Continued)
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